Book Clubs Column by Julie Hale

A CONTROVERSIAL GENIUSYou don’t have to be tech savvy to enjoy Steve Jobs, the fascinating biography by Walter Isaacson that is out in paperback this month, two years after the release of the best-selling hardcover. Jobs, who grew up in California, got his start at Atari in the early 1970s and co-founded Apple in 1976. He spent nine years there, resigned, and then helped transform Pixar...

The definitive biography of our 28th President

Born in Virginia in 1856 to a Presbyterian minister of modest means, Thomas Woodrow Wilson first flowered as an academic. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 1890, became one of the school’s most beloved professors and was elevated to its presidency 12 years later. Throughout this period of intensive teaching and public lecturing, he published a torrent of magazine articles...